People need to realize you can use alternatives

  • Sinnoh@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    Let me see if I underatand this correctly:

    If I create an account on a random, small instance. And then go to the “all communities” feed. I can automatically see all communities that are in my instance. In addition to that, I can see all communities of other Lemmy instances, that are “federated”. But I cannot see other communities from other nstances, unless I go on there, find the communitis and manually subscribe to them (I believe there are other ways to get them to show up, like using the search etc.?)

    So, as a normal user. Who’s just looking for a replacement for /r/all, wouldn’t joining the largest lemmy instance that is fedarated to many others (Just by how many users it has, because it’s the users who link instances by their actions?) make perfect sense?

    • Yozul@beehaw.org
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      1 year ago

      The all communities tab should be showing you communities from every instance you are federated with. It’s true that they won’t show up in your feed until someone on your instance connects to the instance it’s on at least once, but you don’t need to be on a massive server to be connected to all the major communities right from the start.

      • MBM@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        This. There’s no need to join the biggest instance, as long as you’re not among an instance’s first users you won’t notice much difference.